South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today demanded that Cumbria County Council call a halt to their pay cuts for teaching assistants after it was revealed that no other shire county council was making such savage cuts to teaching assistants' pay.
Management of the Concessionary Travel Pass Scheme (bus passes for the elderly) has passed to Kent County Council as of 1 April 2011. At the same time, the starting time of the pass was changed by Kent Conservatives from 9am to 9.30am.
Kent Highway Services have notified that it will be necessary to close a number of roads within the Shepway District Council area (mainly in Romney Marsh and Elham Valley) as part of a programme of highway repairs and resurfacing. This is scheduled to start on or after 20 April 2011.
Sometimes it's not obvious to people just how many Liberal Democrat election manifesto items have already been delivered. This new website cuts to the chase: www.whatthehellhavethelibdemsdone.com
Gedling Liberal Democrats are standing a record 36 candidates in the Borough Council election on the 5th of May. This would be enough to take control of the Council. The Candidates for each ward are as follows. Bonnington - Minna Patterson, Marion Smalley, Martin Walkyier Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph - Richard Fife, John Flynn Carlton - Michel Flor-Henry, Abigail Rhodes, Philip Whitaker Carlton Hill - Graham Dewberry, Spiros Fafoutis, Matthew Newman Daybrook - Nigel Blaylock, Amy Nash Gedling - Maggie Dunkin, Gordon Tunnicliffe, Anne Wright Kingswell - Jensen Stansfield-Coyne, Margaret Swift Mapperley Plains - Max Beeken, Paul Buxton, Neil King Netherfield and Colwick - Susan Brownlee, Nora Crossland, Heather Stammers Phoenix - Richard Berry, Andrew Ellwood Porchester - Josephine James, Ray Poynter, Chris Pratt St James - Tony Gillam, Jason Stansfield Valley - Andrew Dunkin, Paul Hughes Woodthorpe - Roger Patterson, Martin Smalley, Andrew Swift
Desperate Conservatives in Windsor have started to promote the Labour Party in a bid to stave off defeat in some more marginal wards.